Message to Knock:
Keep the old deadlines with at least 1 week -we never had shorter deadlines - and do not change the rules during a tournament. Especially if you then try to punish players whose fault it wasn't.

2 or 3 days for scheduling and playing is ridiculous, given the time most of us are working people, there is more than 1 tournament, because others delayed this one before and people live in different time zones.
So 7 days - which includes the week end is the minimum!!!

Message to Knock:
Keep the old deadlines with at least 1 week -we never had shorter deadlines - and do not change the rules during a tournament. Especially if you then try to punish players whose fault it wasn't.

2 or 3 days for scheduling and playing is ridiculous, given the time most of us are working people, there is more than 1 tournament, because others delayed this one before and people live in different time zones.
So 7 days - which includes the week end is the minimum!!!

If all the players had a responsible and respectful behavior, all would be ok.

I didn't change any rules, I just tried to go to the end of the tournament.

Tournament started December 9th, 11 weeks left and impossible to have 7 matches played for each player... And still 4 or 5 rounds to be played really too long for interest of a tournament
So yes, it's boring for me, and it removes the interest of the tournament for players
I tried to take from my time and send lots of PM (during the RR and during the KO), to post the new (and oldest) games to be played in the forum, with not a lot of results.
So I put deadlines. And of course waited after them if matches were scheduled. Just look at the forum. I just tried to push the players to schedule their matches. With not a lot of results.

I don't want to "punish" anybody else than the players who don't schedule their matches.
I always let time to play to the players who had problems to schedule but tried.

So yes, perhaps my mistake to try to help players with scheduling issues.

Most of players asked for RR + double elimination, it was a mistake to offer that and to do like that.
We were thinking players enough responsible and respectful to play there matches without waiting too much. It was a mistake.
Be sure that next year if I still care for this tournament there will be "normal" KO and single elimination, and deadlines from the beginning ! But if someone else wants my place, it will be with pleasure !

And just take care of the scheduling of your next match when you'll know your opponent sunday evening. If you can't play before next week-end it will be ok, but just take care of it and post it sunday or monday

I don't think the double elimination format is the problem. It just adds 1 extra round from a single elimination.

I think the problem is too many other things going on - Multi, League, Fusion.

At some point some events need to take a back seat to others. I don't mind having FUN running in the background and taking 3 months to complete. If it was the only tournament running at the time, it would be too long, but as is, I don't mind waiting.